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M:H srmrs.KO. I.M7 GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1889. I JOB* I. BrWIt, MIMf a* fiMdilir,
I TIIIB •I.HO Ptr Tear, la MTUW.
DAMEI. G. rowu ate good government wc must
have adequate means at our com-mand
to cause the laws to be re-spected
and obeyed, and with
this view it is, in my estimation,
the duty of the Legislature to
render more effective the State
Guard. This can be done—
1st. By increasing the number
of the companies to thirty, or
even more.
2d. By providing a permanent
encampment.
3d. By increasing the pay of
the Adjutant-General, so that he
will be able to give more of his
time to his very important duties.
Personal liberty is of the first
concern to a good citizen, and
this personal liberty can best be
preserved by having an organized
force at the command of the Ex-lion'than
all other causes ecutivc, to be used promptly
surrender of, whenever the emergency may ar-rive.
My distinguished predeces-sor
authorizes me to state that on
one occasion, at least, during his
Administration the fact that he
had a State Guard, in his opinion,
preserved the public peace and
saved North Carolina from riot
and bloodshed.
Special-Tax Honda.
Improper taxes should not be
, v , • ul Worth CTOIIM—Hti In—
augural Andrea*.
Daniel Gould l'owle was form-inducted
into the office of
Governor of North Carolina last
Thursday, January 17th. The
of office was administered
by Chief Justice Smith. Follow-the
ceremony he delivered the
wring address:
Hi. \v;ir l> Over.
The issues of the war arc dead.
The election of Grovcr Cleveland
1 . the presidency of the United
States lour years ago and the
nificent administration ofpub-
C affairs since his inauguration
ne more to destroy scc-m
and restore confidence
rntty between the States
of the Union than alf "
lined since the
General Lee at Appomattox.
f ***** *
Harrison's Admin1st ra'.luii.
A Republican Administration
will control the destinies of this
cuntry from the 4th of March for
the term of four years.
North Carolina stands ready to
that Administration a fair
trial an I to cordially co-operate .
■ in every effort which it imposed or collected.
make to increase the pros- I . In.«"■ connection your atten-erity
of the Union and the glory J™ ' ."lled l° ,hat c'ause ofJhe
Constitution of the United Constitution of our State which
for throughout the limits | provides that no tax shall be
levied for the payment of any
Mates.
, [ this State, at least, it is thor-oughly
believed that the Union
is the Constitution and the Con-ition
is the Union.
Internal Revenue.
It is at least a matter of con-gratulation
that the Republican
party now has it in its power to
repeal the iniquitous internal rcve
nue system which it originated.
It is an excise tax, and now that
the war is over should be repealed
without delay.
There is no reason in the asser-tion
that the Government in time
of peace has the power of levying
a direct tax upon the product of
the farmer on one side of the road,
because it happens to be tobacco
n orchard, and not the power
to tax the corn or wheat of the
s ime farmer on the
the road.
The fact is any internal revenue
law in time of peace is a violation
r,l the spirit of the Constitution of
the United States, which only in-tended
that such power should be
exercised as a war measure, when
the country was deprived of its
resources from imports, and if the
Republican party, when it gets
the full control of the Govern-ment
of the United States —Presi-dent,
Senate and Mouse ol Rep-resentatives—
shall fail to redeem
the pledges of its leaders by re-pealing
these laws, it will not re-quire
the gift of prophecy to fore-the
rebuke it will receive at
the hands of its disappointed con-ncy.
our Rtatc Government-
In regard to State affairs, wc
e great cause for thankfulness
on account of the good results
h have attended the wise and
patriotic administrations of my
three distinguished predecessors.
Governors Scales, Jarvis and
Vance.
Taxation.
From 1S5.S to the present time
the assessed property of the State
has increased from about $98,-
I 1 $2i-,ooo,ooo, and since
i, when our State tax. under
Republican rule, v.-,;; eighty cents
on the hundred dollars' worth of
perty, it has been reduced un-special-
tax bond until the same
has been submitted to a vote of
the people.
A suit is now pending for the
collection of the special-tax bonds
issued by the Legislature of 1868,
and I wish each and every mem-cr
of the General Assembly to
" understand distinctly that every-
" thing which the Governor can
constitutionally do to prevent the
collection of those bonds, or any
portion of them, principal or in-terest,
will be done; and that he,
as well as the people of North
Carolina, relies upon your earnest
co-operation in protecting the
State from this imposition.
Educational PacUitles.
To an intelligent man seeking
a new home the educational facili-othcr
side of! I'" afforded by a State to the
young of both sexes arc of prime
importance.
Wc are proud of the record
made by North Carolina upon this
subject.
For our guidance in the present
and the future we must look to
the requirements of our State
Constitution and the wants of the
people.
No one can peruse the Consti-tution
adopted by North Carolina
in 17S9, or its various changes
since, without being struck by
the solicitude of our people that
our
State Unlrerilty
should be fostered by the Legisla-ture.
Under that Constitution ist
care is your duty and its proper
maintenance by you one of its
most binding obligations.
Whether the people acted wise-ly
or not in establishing a Univer-sity
for the State is not the ques-tion,
so long as that Constitution
contains its present provisions.
Although the honor of being
one of its matriculates is not
mine, yet the glorious desire of
our revolutionary and post-revo-lutionary
fathers to establish in
North Carolina a University in
which every true son of the State
may feel an honorable pride finds
a responsive echo in my heart.
To your kind care it is com-mitted,
ami anything that may be
necessary to make it more effec-il
now it is only twenty cents on , tjye anJ usefuii von wjU no doubt
worth of talcc picasurei as well as pride, in
ropcrty, and yet we have erected doing.
: uildings than at any
previous period of our history.
Population*
r population seems to be in-sing
gradually but surely.
Taking the number of votes cast
I .r the several candidates for
Governor from 186S to iSSS it will
appear that the increase has been
tig the twenty years 72 per
cent.,"'for in 1S6S the vote was
OO, whilst in 1S8S it was 2S5,-
coo.
This increase, it ought to grati-fy
us at ascertaining, is due not
iny appreciable extent to im-migration,
but to the natural in-crease
of our population. And
when we consider the advantages
<JI soil, location and temperature
essed by our State, we may
reasonably hope that the day is
distant when worthy, indus-
■'■'•u-i immigrants will find it to
Common .schools.
Our common schools are an
honor to the State. Wc have ap-propriated
more and more money
for the education of our boys and
girls. In 1868 there was expend-ed
lor this purpose by the State
$39,000; in 1888 about $700,000.
But yet, in some of the counties of
the State, the schools are not kept
open four months each year as the
Constitution requires. There
seems to be no practical way un-der
an act which is uniform in
levying taxes upon the different
counties of the State to remedy
this evil by legislation. Yet it
should be remedied. The sug-gestion
is therefore made for your
consideration whether it would
not be well to make some change
in the Constitution of the State so
that the amount needed to keep
the schools open for the four
iterest'to'come to this the months shall be levied upon the
most favored of all the sisters of property' of the county in which
'he Union. But in order to at- the deficiency occurs.
is condemned, or in case a man
desires to negotiate a loan doubt
is thrown upon it to such an ex-tent
that those having money are
unwilling to part with it, for fear
that some "married woman," or
the married daughter of some
mother or grand-mother who was
a married woman before she ar-rived
at the age of twenty-one
years, may sue for the same.
There has been case alter case in
our courts where men have pur-chased
estates after due inquiry
and yet some one living in some
distint part of the country has un-der
this law brought suit and dis-possessed
the man or woman who
had expended money in buying a
home. This can be remedied by
repealing the provision excepting
married women from our statutes
of repose. This will be no hard-ship,
for they have now the right
to sue alone. Or if there should
be a doubt about that you have
the power to give them the right
as if they were/i'wwc so/e,ar\d pre-serve
for their benefit the present
law until, say, the 1st of January,
1890.
Railroads.
The railroad system of a State
attracts the attention of a would-be
citizen. Wc have now in North
Carolina fifty-one railroad compa-nies.
Wc have 2,550 miles of
track already laid and new routes
contemplated and begun every
few months. These railroads have
been of incalculable benefit to our
State and people, and their pros-perity
is to us a matter of pardon-able
pride, and no embarrassing
restraint upon; their development
or prosperity should be imposed
by a legislative body. But on the
other hand, the exercise of un-bounded
power—almost of sov-ereignty—
by powerful corpora-tions,
however well martaged, will
be apt to prove injurious to the
State, or some portions of it,
whenever the interests of those
corporations seem to be antago-nistic
to those of our State or peo-ple.
It is therefore right and
proper that a law creating a
Railroad Commission,
to be composed of say three mem-bers,
should be matured at an
early day by the General Assem-bly.
Care, of course, should be
taken not to interfere with the
legitimate exercise of power by
the different railroad corporations,
but at the same time the interests
of the State should be carefully
guarded against usurpations by
these most powerful associations.
Most Helpless ot Our People.
From the most powerful let us
turn to the most helpless of our
people. However well the mate-rial
prosperity of a State may be
provided for, if it owe a debt of
gratitude to any portion of its
people and fit occasion come for
its payment and the ability is
present to discharge the debt, at
least in part, and that duty is ne-glected,
prosperity itself will only
make more glaring the ingratitude
of the Commonwealth. We have
maimed and disabled soldiers
amongst us who have fought the
battles of their State and entwin-ed
around North Carolina's brow
a chaplet of undying glory and
renown. For even in a war which
culminated fn defeat the North
Carolina soldier won for himself a
reputation for courage and hero-ism
unsurpassed by the achieve-ments
ol the human race in any
clime or any country.
It is the desire of our people
that this Legislature should be
prudent and frugal and economi-cal,
but no whisper has yet come
to my ears that a proper appro-priation
should not be made to
render more tolerable the condi-tion
of those brave soldiers who
were wounded upon the battle-field
and are now suffering on ac-count
of those wounds for the ac-tual
necessaries of life. Let your
bounty to them be as liberal as
the circumstances of the State
civil government seemed to
threaten a conflict of authority
which might prove detrimental to
the interests of this Common-wealth;
which we all love so
much, and yet, my countrymen,
with unfeigned diffidence, I say to
you this day the responsibility
which is about to devolve upon
me brings with it more apprehen-sion
as to the result of my official
action than I ever felt before.
Scales' Administration.
My distinguished predecessor
has just closed an Administration
so wise and conservative in its
character that hardly a ripple has
disturbed the surface of the cur-rent
of public opinion during his
entire term, and yet 1 feel well
assured that the future historian
will refer to the last four years as
the halcyon days of North Caro-lina,
when the wisdom and justice
of its Governor established peace
and quiet throughout the length
and breadth of our State. The
next four years may be more try-ing,
but will you not, gentlemen
of the General Assembly and fel-low-
citizens, give your aid and
influence in bringing increased
prosperity and development to
our noble old mother and in mak-ing
her position in the sisterhood
more glorious and honorable than
it has ever been before? This can
only be done by wise and patriot-ic
laws, enacted by you who are
representatives, and by prompt
and cheerful cooperation upon the
part of our citizens. It can only
be by deepening and widening the
foundations upon which rests, in
the hearts of the people of North
Carolina, the love of the Ameri-can
Union.
Loyalty to the Union.
When the Prodigal Son return-ed
to the house of his father the
misfortunes of his past only added
to the love and affection which he
bore to his recovered home.
Idealizing the ardent devotion en-tertained
by this people for the
Government of our fathers I un-hesitatingly
proclaim this day
that nowhere within this broad
land is there a sincerer devotion
felt for the national Government
than within the limits of North
Carolina. It is our country and
it is our Government, and at the
conclusion of this Administration
let us by our actions be able to
prove to the whole world that the
confines of a single State are not
sufficient to satisfy the longings
and ambitions of a people whose
pride and glory it is that they arc
a part and parcel of a great and
powerful country. Let us wel-come
our brethren from the other
States of this Union, whether
North or South, within our bor-ders,
and let us make each and
every one of them feel that we
are alike brothers in the Union,
and that we proudly point to our
inheritance of American citizen-ship
as the greatest honor which
any human being can claim.
When this is fully realized our
homes will be better protected,
our people will become more pros-perous
and better satisfied, our
State more progressive, and our
country the pride and glory of the
world.
tract desirable immigrants we
must improve our State and give
Titles to I.snrt.
It is of the utmost importance
such a government as will to us to have the titles to our real
iiduce the better class of those ■ estate as clear and simple as pos-desire
new homes to castlsible. But yet, owing to an old
with us. provision in our law which might
stati- t.uar.i. ' at one time have been reasonable,
Now, to establish and pcrpctu- i it very often happens that a title
will permit. Fix upon the amount,
which aided by the gTfts of the
charitable and the affection of
kindred will bring comfort to each
disabled soldier, and provide that
an additional amount shall be ad-ded
to the sum appropriated un-der
the act of 1884 for his benefit,
until he shall receive an amount
to be fixed by you, and the plau-dits
of your countrymen will at-tend
your action; for under no
circumstances will the people of
North Carolina be wilting to see
one of her disabled soldiers enter
the poor house.
A Modest Apprehension.
It has been my fortune to stand
upon the floor of our State Capi-tol
as a member of the Legisla-ture
of our State in the darkest
days of the civil war, and again at
the head of the military forces of
the State as adjutant-general,
when the whole power of our peo-ple
was being exerted in an un-equal
strife, and again upon the
judicial bench when the antagon-istic
principles of military and
A Hrakemaii's I'alal Error.
Last week's accident on the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio rail-road,
near Tallmadgc, Ohio, seems
to have been due to fog and the
misunderstanding of signals by
Brakcman Jas. Bradley, who was
sent out to flag the passenger
bain. Engineer Robt. Hunting-ton
had just time to reverse his
engine when the dreadful crash
came, and in the instant he yield-ed
up his life. The freight was
heavy, and while it was climbing
the grade a coupling parted about
the middle of the train. It was
decided to resort to the common
expedient of doubling up. Flag-men
were sent out, one cast, an-other
to the west, to warn any ap-proaching
trains. Brakeman Jas.
Bradley, an old and experienced
railroader, was sent ahead to flag
the east-bound passenger, which
was known to be about due.
Meantime, the first part of the
broken freight train was taken to
Tallmadge siding. The engine
then returned to the second part.
A signal was then given which is
said to have been to summon back
the flagman stationed at the east.
Flagman Bradley took it to be for
him, also, and started back to the
freight, The engineer of the
freight engine says that no recall
whistle was sounded, but at any
rate Bradley heard it so and went
back. The freight had just got
under motion to go to Tallmadge
when the express came along.
The momentum of the freight
train was somewhat checked by
the reverse, but the impact was
terrific nevertheless. The freight
engineer and brakeman jumped
and escaped serious injury, the en-receiving
several cuts.
wreckage behind it. The freight
engine reared up and stood al-most
on end. Engineer Hunt-ington
and Fireman Walters, of
the express, were terribly crush-ed.
The engineer was disembow-eled,
his head crushed, and his
limbs broken and doubled up.
The passenger train consisted of
a combination baggage and ex-press
car and smoker, a common
coach and two sleepers. The
combination baggage car and
smoker telescoped and took fire,
and from the burning wreck cries
of distress and agony quickly
arose. One man, George Shaw,
pinned in by the wreckage, man-aged
by superhuman efforts to re-lease
his lower limbs and escaped
cut and bruised. The last man
to get out alive was able to grasp
an axe handle and retain his hold
until he was drawn through a
gap, half dead, but was quickly
resuscitated. In the smoker were
eight Chinamen. Five were pull-ed
out alive, but half dead from
fright. Three were never seen
after the crash, and bones and
bits of charred flesh gathered up
in a bag were all that were found
of them.
One of the most pathetic of all
scenes were those attending the
death of little Mary Ann Lyon,
an orphan, who was being sent
through from Idaho on a second-class
ticket to relatives at Cherry
Creek, N. Y. Edward Peltzer, a
passenger going to New York,
tells this story of her death: "I
noticed the little girl, who ap-peared
to be all alone, and learned
that she had been ticketed
through to New York as a second-class
passenger. She was_ a
sweet-faced child, and every time
I visited the smoker I interested
myself in her. She said her par-ents
were dead, and she was going
to Cherry Creek to live with some
relatives. When the crash came
I was in my berth in the sleeper
and received only a slight shock.
My first thought was of little
Mary, and I rushed out of the
car, and to my horror I saw that
the smoker was all in flames. I
went outside opposite the part of
the car where the little one had
sat, and found that she had been
wedged down by a scat which
had fallen upon her. The flames
were already surrounding her,
and finding she could not be
rescued I fled from the spot, im-agining
that I could see her plead-ing
eyes and hear her dreadful
shrieks. This so unnerved me
that I threw myself upon the
ground and sobbed."
Another eye-witness says that
the little girl, whose shrieks were
heartrending, released herself just
before the fire got to her, and for
a moment groped wildly about in
the prison of a car, then fell over,
choked by smoke, the flames
quickly coming up to complete
the dreadful work.
Tiie passengers in the rear Pull-man
sleepers were hardly aroused
by the concussion,; in fact no one
is said to have apprehended dan-ger
until the officials informed
them of the casualty and bade
them make hasty toilets.
While the express matter was
burning a lawyer from the west
stood by, and pointing to a flam-ing
trunk, said: "That trunk con-tains
$25,000 worth of legal bonds
and papers. The papers cannot
be duplicated and a suit involving
$2 5,coo depends upon the evidence
they contain." The railroad com-pany's
loss is estimated at $15,-
000.
of a machinist, and the example
would be equally worthy of emu-lation.
He is but the representa-tive
of a large class of young men
—far too large for the good of
themselves or the country—who
appear to have no other aim than
to be fondled and petted by fash-ionable
society—young men of
possibly bright intelligence other-wise,
but who fall into the deplor-able
idea that any work which
necessitates contact with the
rough phases of the world and
hard manual labor as a prepara-tory
school of discipline, is wholly
incompatible with that high-ton-ed
gentii'ty which it is the height
of their ambition to rub against
and daily with.
Hence the thousands of young
men who seek easy official posi-tions
or employment behind a
dry goods counter or other light
service which had better be done
by women. Hence also the large
number of those who, by reason
of the smiles of fortune, enjoy ex-emption
from toil, esteem it a
higher honor to be mere drones
in the hive than to do anything
in the nature of labor, and look
with special contempt upon those
who by choice or necessity join
the grand army of workingmen,
with their smoke-begrimed and
d'rt-stained uniforms.
Society itself is largely at fault
in this matter; for it is a principle
rf social ethics that men who toil
with their hands are inadmissible
to the charmed circle in which
worth is measured by wealth in-stead
of brains, by the ability to
live in habits of aristocratic idle-ness,
by effeminacy of intellect,
by insignia of rank, by the general
absence of those robust virtues
that have^made the world the
miracle of progress that it is.
Young Blalue's Example
If James G. Blaine. Jr., had
never done another brave and
sensible thing in his life, he would
have to be credited with such an
act in entering himself as an ap-prentice
in a locomotive shop. It
is a proceeding that may not find
immediate favor in swell social
circles, from which everything
that smells of trade is apt to be
excluded, but this is so much
more to the credit of the youth
who allows no such frivolous con-siderations
to influence his deci-sions.
Young Blaine's energies hither-to
had been somewhat scattered,
and his prospects in life were any-thing
but encouraging, all for the
lack of proper stability of pur-pose,
and to some extent, per-haps,
for the reason that, being
the son of a distinguished and
wealthy father, he had not suffici-ently
appreciated the importance
of doing for himself.
The vicissitude that seems to
have cured him at last of such an
unfortunate and too common de-lusion
and inspired him with man-lier
determinations, assuming that
he has the perseverance and good
faith to carry out his present in-tentions,
will prove to be the hap-py
turning point in his destiny
and make a man of him.
He would have deserved equal
Cowles* Revenue Mill.
[Wsshiftfton Star. 17th.)
Representative Cowles expects
his internal bill to be reported
from the appropriations commit-tee
and to pass both Houses.
There seems to be very good
grounds for his faith that such a
bill would go through the House
promptly if a vote were permitted
on it. If required to vote direct-ly
upon the proposition, no mem-ber
from the tobacco districts
could afford to vote against any
proposition to reduce or extin-guish
the tobacco tax. Many of
the democrats who would be
compelled so to vote would, for
party reasons, be glad to avoid
the question, but when put to it
they will have no choice. Several
who opposed sending Mr. Cowles'
bill to Mr. Randall's committee,
would probably feel obliged to
vote for the bill reported. The
passage of the bill would doubt-less
prevent an extra session of
the Fifty-first Congress, and in
other ways relieve the Republi-cans
of cmbarassment. It would
be very apt to delay tariff revision
for a considerable time
The Democratic membeis of
the ways and means committee
and all ihc leading tariff reformers
in the House' are consequently
deeply offended at Mr. Cowles'
action in putting them in this
situation. Xhey regard his ac-tion
as an offense against the good
of the party and a reflection upon
the Speaker and the committee.
The feeling is so intense that it
amounts almost to a personal
matter. Mr. Cowles is regarded
as a grave offender, and he is
treated with decided coolness by
many of his party. In defense of
his attitude he points out that he
voted for the Morrison bill and
for the Mills bill, and has always
been with his party and fought
for it. In this instance he con-tends
that he is making no at-tack
on the party or its leaders,
but is doing what his constituents
demanded of him, to relieve them
from a tyranny that is keeping
them poor. In the campaign, he
says, he defended the Mills bills
before his people, and was an ad-vocate
of tariff reform. His peo-ple
must be relieved from the op-pression
of the internal revenue
laws, he says, but they will all
join with the party in the reduc-tion
of the tariff duties. A failure
to give these people the relief
they demanded, he says, would
lose North Carolina, West Vir-ginia,
Virginia and portions of
Georgia and Tennessee to the
Democrats. The small farmers
in these districts, he says, suffer
great loss and privation from not
have had the Seriate bill sent
them and have been given a
chance to consider it. Then, if
they report nothing, the bill re-ferred
to the appropriations com-mittee
will be reported.
A Pleasant Hay on the Kami.
(Written for taa patriot. I
• In discussing the many occupa-tions
which man has sought out
whereby he may obtain an honest
good living and also secure pleas-ure
and enjoyment, that of a
farmer is generally considered
among the last of all those occu-pations
to which he may turn for
a realization of such anticipations.
None but those who have experi-enced
the freedom and indepen-dence
of farm life can fully realize
what sumptuous feasts, what rare
sport and social enjoyment, may
be found on the farm. It was our
pleasure to be one among several
of Mr. Martin Glass' neighbors
and friends, who were invited to
his home to spend New Year's
day, and I think I speak for all
the party wdien I say it was a day
pleasantly spent.
After tramping over the fields
in search of quail and hare for a
few hours, we were summoned to
dinner. Our appetites were well
whetted and sharpened by the
exercise for the sumptuous feast
that was spread before us. It
would be useless to endeavor to
enumerate the varieties of vege-tables,
meats and pickles, the
many kinds of pics, cakes and
puddings this feast consisted of.
And as our party consisted en-tirely
of farmers, farmers' wives,
and farmers' daughters, we had
no fears of being criticized for not
observing properly all the rules
of eliquette, but felt free to let
nature take its course.
We have not penned the above
simply to flatter Mr. Glass, but
more especially to set forth the
fact to discontented farmers' sons
and our stylish city neighbors
that farm life is not without its
sweets, and though it has its sours,
yet the farmer and his family are
more free from the polluting in-fluences
of public vices, and are
! less subjected to the terrible bond-age
of fashion and style, than
many of their fellow creatures
that are engaged in other pur-suits.
Mr. Glass does nothing but
farm, and depends entirely on the
proceeds from his farm for the
good living he and his happy
family arc enjoying.
The farmer who obtains a good
living and secures pleasure and
happiness must study his business.
He must exercise both his brain
and muscle. One great reason
why farm life is considered un-profitable,
unpleasant and unde-sirable
is because the farmer
makes it so by want of thought
and practical application. There
is a want of concentration in his
efforts in brain and muscle.
A visit to Mr_Glass' farm will
convince every farmer that farm-ing
pays, and is a pleasant busi-ness
when done properly.
FARMER.
Revenue Officer- Ambushed in Cleveland
County.
(Oharlotto special, Jan. l'Hh.l
Moonshiners in the mountains
in this part of the State are be-coming
very lawless and trouble-some.
It is evident that some of
Redman's famous gang still sur-vive
and are organizing to oper-ate
on a large scale. Redman,
who was for years the king of
North Carolina moonshiners and
a desperate outlaw, and who is
now serving a term of imprison-ment
in the Albany Penitentiary,
had in his day, and that only a
few years ago, a large body of
followers, and he carried on
moonshining on no small scale.
After his arrest his men were
compelled to disband; but now it
seems as if a new organization
with an unknown leader had been
perfected in the mountains.
At different times and in differ-ent
parts of the western moun-tains
in this State lately large
groups of men strongly suspected
of being moonshiners have been
seen, and it is also said that some
of them boast that Redman's
spirit is still among them. Among
a certain class of mountain farm-ers
it seems only natural to them
to manufacture their fruit which
is always abundant into spiritu-ous
liquors, and they do not care
to pay the toll Uncle Sam de-mands.
So they set up their dis-
The latest evidence of moon-shiners
organizing was received
to-night from Cleveland county.
Deputy United States Marshal G.
W. Means, with a strong posse,
had been for the past two days
raiding mountains in Cleveland
and Burke counties. They had
discovered several distilleries and
destroyed them, and had also
made three arrests. Late last
night they, with their prisoners,
were slowly riding around South
Mountain towards Shelby. The
night was exceedingly dark.
Suddenly a voice from the bushes
rang out: "Give up your prison-ers,
or you all must die!"
The officers demanded to know
the names, but to this a volley
from twenty-five rifles gave an-swer.
The officers at once re-cognized
their danger and pre-pared
to return the salute, but,
their horses being frightened,
they found it impossible to do su
quickly.
"Bang! bang!" again and again
re-echoed from the ambush. The
officers, aiming in the direction of
the sound, opened fire hot and
fast. One prisoner fell from his
horse, wounded by the moon-shiners,
and when he sent up a
wail the moonshiners rushed out,
making the officers retreat a short
distance. They then picked up
their wounded and fled to the
woods, carrying with them the
wounded prisoner.
It is positive that at least half
a dozen moonshiners received
wounds, while a member of the
posse named Wray and several
others were seriously wounded.
Efforts will be made to nip this
new Redman outbreak in the
bud.
What the Territories Demand and Must
Have.
rSunael" Cox in ttao IIOUM.)
"It is impossible, Mr. Speaker,
to resist the demand of such a
State, even when divided. You
cannot enchain this Prometheus
to a rock. Why should such a
country, so rich and prosperous
and intelligent, be governed dif-ferently
from Georgia or Massa-chusetts,
Illinois or New York ?
You can not keep such a people
down. Refuse to admit this State
and its Territorial sisters ? Why,
sir, you may enact that frost shall
cease in the North and blooms in
the South, or try to fix the figure
of Proteus by statute, but you
cannot prevent the people of this
Territory from their demand, and
you must accede to it; and if this
Congress does not, wc know that
the next Congress will.
"The spirit of this people of the
Northwest is that of unbounded
push and energy. These arc the
men who have tunneled our moun-tains,
who have delved our mines,
who have bridged our rivers, who
have brought every part of our
empire within the reach of foreign
and home markets, who have
made possible our grand growth
and splendid development. They
are the men who have made our
national life. There is no parallel
in-history to their achievements.
You can not hold them as captive
to the Federal system. You
must give them self-reliant state-hood.
"The historian of Rome draws
a picture of the proud Queen of
Palmyra, arrayed in purple and
loaded with golden chains to ag-grandize
the procession in honor
of the conqueror of Asia. It
needs no such imagination to pic-ture
the condition of our inchoate
States in the West. They will
wear no golden chains. No sir !
They will march in no procession
of dishonor. Such exhibitions do
not belong to our country. Our
people are not to be led in fetters
at the car of an imperial Congress.
Why, such exhibitions were unfit
even for pagan Rome. So that in
every possible equipment, wheth-
_1?..?-IAJ n_ unilnil *Kie riimif t'.
to sell the pro- tillery in some secret spot 1
of %' being permitted
duct of their land to whom they , swamp or some recess
how they have to haul it; mountains and keep a lookout for
and | officers. The
please, revenue officers many miles at great expense, -..- , ~.
to put it in the licensed ware- have noticed recently that where
house, finally selling it for what is I one mountaineer is found there
given them under conditions'are likely to be more than a dozen
creatly to their disadvantage. [in shouting-distance, and it is
- -hat Mr. now becoming risky for an officer
It is still uncertain just w the mountains
Randall's committee will do in to stroll about
the matter. He is himself much alone. The moonshiners are hard
It I to arrest and in not a few in-stances
have officers who attempt-embarrassed
by the situation. ^k^k^^\^^^^^^\^^^^^^~^th'm b""—*
er divided or united, this remark-able
Territory is ready to join
that circle of felicity which makes
up the Federal fraternity."
Chierfuluess.
How contagious it is! "I can-not
meet Mr. — without getting
a gleam of sunshine into my own
life," said a friend recently. How
wc all need it! How one cheer-ful
face lights up and brightens a
company and changes in the
thought of a disheartened pastor
the whole aspect of a congrega-tion!
What right has one to look
like a thunder-cloud and to gen-erate
darkness and gloom where-ever
he goes? Be cheerful. Cul-tivate
a pleasant look, and a
pleasant way of speaking to every
one. Never take a doleful view of
things, then no one will cross the
street to avoid meeting you or
feel that his peace ol mind is de-stroyedby
a brief interview. The
clear sky and bright sunshine af-ter
days of rain and fog are no
more grateful than the cheering
face and presence of those who
reflect the most of the image of
God.
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M:H srmrs.KO. I.M7 GREENSBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1889. I JOB* I. BrWIt, MIMf a* fiMdilir,
I TIIIB •I.HO Ptr Tear, la MTUW.
DAMEI. G. rowu ate good government wc must
have adequate means at our com-mand
to cause the laws to be re-spected
and obeyed, and with
this view it is, in my estimation,
the duty of the Legislature to
render more effective the State
Guard. This can be done—
1st. By increasing the number
of the companies to thirty, or
even more.
2d. By providing a permanent
encampment.
3d. By increasing the pay of
the Adjutant-General, so that he
will be able to give more of his
time to his very important duties.
Personal liberty is of the first
concern to a good citizen, and
this personal liberty can best be
preserved by having an organized
force at the command of the Ex-lion'than
all other causes ecutivc, to be used promptly
surrender of, whenever the emergency may ar-rive.
My distinguished predeces-sor
authorizes me to state that on
one occasion, at least, during his
Administration the fact that he
had a State Guard, in his opinion,
preserved the public peace and
saved North Carolina from riot
and bloodshed.
Special-Tax Honda.
Improper taxes should not be
, v , • ul Worth CTOIIM—Hti In—
augural Andrea*.
Daniel Gould l'owle was form-inducted
into the office of
Governor of North Carolina last
Thursday, January 17th. The
of office was administered
by Chief Justice Smith. Follow-the
ceremony he delivered the
wring address:
Hi. \v;ir l> Over.
The issues of the war arc dead.
The election of Grovcr Cleveland
1 . the presidency of the United
States lour years ago and the
nificent administration ofpub-
C affairs since his inauguration
ne more to destroy scc-m
and restore confidence
rntty between the States
of the Union than alf "
lined since the
General Lee at Appomattox.
f ***** *
Harrison's Admin1st ra'.luii.
A Republican Administration
will control the destinies of this
cuntry from the 4th of March for
the term of four years.
North Carolina stands ready to
that Administration a fair
trial an I to cordially co-operate .
■ in every effort which it imposed or collected.
make to increase the pros- I . In.«"■ connection your atten-erity
of the Union and the glory J™ ' ."lled l° ,hat c'ause ofJhe
Constitution of the United Constitution of our State which
for throughout the limits | provides that no tax shall be
levied for the payment of any
Mates.
, [ this State, at least, it is thor-oughly
believed that the Union
is the Constitution and the Con-ition
is the Union.
Internal Revenue.
It is at least a matter of con-gratulation
that the Republican
party now has it in its power to
repeal the iniquitous internal rcve
nue system which it originated.
It is an excise tax, and now that
the war is over should be repealed
without delay.
There is no reason in the asser-tion
that the Government in time
of peace has the power of levying
a direct tax upon the product of
the farmer on one side of the road,
because it happens to be tobacco
n orchard, and not the power
to tax the corn or wheat of the
s ime farmer on the
the road.
The fact is any internal revenue
law in time of peace is a violation
r,l the spirit of the Constitution of
the United States, which only in-tended
that such power should be
exercised as a war measure, when
the country was deprived of its
resources from imports, and if the
Republican party, when it gets
the full control of the Govern-ment
of the United States —Presi-dent,
Senate and Mouse ol Rep-resentatives—
shall fail to redeem
the pledges of its leaders by re-pealing
these laws, it will not re-quire
the gift of prophecy to fore-the
rebuke it will receive at
the hands of its disappointed con-ncy.
our Rtatc Government-
In regard to State affairs, wc
e great cause for thankfulness
on account of the good results
h have attended the wise and
patriotic administrations of my
three distinguished predecessors.
Governors Scales, Jarvis and
Vance.
Taxation.
From 1S5.S to the present time
the assessed property of the State
has increased from about $98,-
I 1 $2i-,ooo,ooo, and since
i, when our State tax. under
Republican rule, v.-,;; eighty cents
on the hundred dollars' worth of
perty, it has been reduced un-special-
tax bond until the same
has been submitted to a vote of
the people.
A suit is now pending for the
collection of the special-tax bonds
issued by the Legislature of 1868,
and I wish each and every mem-cr
of the General Assembly to
" understand distinctly that every-
" thing which the Governor can
constitutionally do to prevent the
collection of those bonds, or any
portion of them, principal or in-terest,
will be done; and that he,
as well as the people of North
Carolina, relies upon your earnest
co-operation in protecting the
State from this imposition.
Educational PacUitles.
To an intelligent man seeking
a new home the educational facili-othcr
side of! I'" afforded by a State to the
young of both sexes arc of prime
importance.
Wc are proud of the record
made by North Carolina upon this
subject.
For our guidance in the present
and the future we must look to
the requirements of our State
Constitution and the wants of the
people.
No one can peruse the Consti-tution
adopted by North Carolina
in 17S9, or its various changes
since, without being struck by
the solicitude of our people that
our
State Unlrerilty
should be fostered by the Legisla-ture.
Under that Constitution ist
care is your duty and its proper
maintenance by you one of its
most binding obligations.
Whether the people acted wise-ly
or not in establishing a Univer-sity
for the State is not the ques-tion,
so long as that Constitution
contains its present provisions.
Although the honor of being
one of its matriculates is not
mine, yet the glorious desire of
our revolutionary and post-revo-lutionary
fathers to establish in
North Carolina a University in
which every true son of the State
may feel an honorable pride finds
a responsive echo in my heart.
To your kind care it is com-mitted,
ami anything that may be
necessary to make it more effec-il
now it is only twenty cents on , tjye anJ usefuii von wjU no doubt
worth of talcc picasurei as well as pride, in
ropcrty, and yet we have erected doing.
: uildings than at any
previous period of our history.
Population*
r population seems to be in-sing
gradually but surely.
Taking the number of votes cast
I .r the several candidates for
Governor from 186S to iSSS it will
appear that the increase has been
tig the twenty years 72 per
cent.,"'for in 1S6S the vote was
OO, whilst in 1S8S it was 2S5,-
coo.
This increase, it ought to grati-fy
us at ascertaining, is due not
iny appreciable extent to im-migration,
but to the natural in-crease
of our population. And
when we consider the advantages